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New Leadership in Infant and Toddler Learning Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Addresses a Critical Need for Professional Development in North Carolina

The North Carolina Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), CCSA and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) partnered together to address the tremendous need for professional development specifically targeted to improve the quality of infant and toddler care. The result is a new graduate-level Leadership in Infant and Toddler Learning (LITL) Certificate program that will be piloted at UNCG. Learn more here.

Effective Early Education Requires Effective and Empowered Early Educators

Effective early childhood education paves the way for school success and better life chances. This is a well-researched fact. Yet, a high percentage of young children in our country do not experience quality early childhood programs. One reason for this failure is the misconception that staff with minimum professional training and poverty line salaries are enough to deliver effective early childhood education. The truth is that better educational outcomes for children, especially those who begin life at social and economic disadvantage, require skilled, professional, well-compensated early childhood teachers. Read more here.

Early Educators Value Certification

More early educators are finding value in the Early Educator Certification (EEC). As a professional in the early care and education system, North Carolina early educators working from infancy to pre-kindergarten are seeking ways to share with employers and families their educational attainment in this important work of teaching our young children. The Early Educator Certification provides a certificate that early educators can share or post to highlight their educational attainment without having to pull out their degree or transcript. Also, technical assistance professionals are being certified to work with early educators when providing professional development.

To learn more about how you can certify your individual education, please review the updated materials in the certification section. While we encourage ongoing education, it is no longer required for renewal, except for those certified at Levels 4 to 8 with less than 6 focused semester credits. EEC can provide a certificate to document your success, as well as opportunities to participate in the NCICDP EEC Rewards and Benefits program that offers great savings. Early Educators are professionals and deserve to be compensated for their educational attainment and experience. Share your worth with EEC.

PNC Grow Up Great Initiative Currently Providing Funding for Pre-K and Head Start Classrooms

PNC Financial Services Group is partnering with DonorsChoose.org to support teachers in NC Pre-K and Head Start classrooms! Funding is provided for materials, classroom resources, and enrichment experiences – all free for teachers! Teachers simply post their project to get started. Click on the links below to learn more about this exciting initiative!

With increasingly rising numbers of opioid use, the impact on young children shows up in a multitude of ways, with children’s basic health and safety being put at risk. This article shares information related to the opioid epidemic, along with many links to data that document how children are being affected by this ever-increasing national crisis. Click here to read more.

Institute Workgroups Conduct SWOT Analysis, Move to Strategies. Four Institute workgroups composed of early educators and partners from across the state engaged in a six month strategic planning effort to identify next steps in advancing the education, compensation and professional recognition of the NC early childhood workforce. The workgroups composed of diverse early educators and stakeholders from across the state include Compensation, Higher Education, Professional Development (non-credit opportunities) and Advancing the Education of the Workforce are now moving on to strategy development

NC Justice Center Analysis

The NC Justice Center recently published an analysis of early educator wages across our state, providing evidence that the low wages of our workforce keep a majority of educators in such a state of poverty that they cannot afford to live on the wages they earn. Learn more by clicking here.
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Lean In and Learn Webinar 2017

On October 5th, 2017, the Institute, in collaboration with UNC Wilmington, held our fall Lean In and Learn Virtual Webinar to inform the field of the implications of trauma to children, families, and the early childhood workforce. Three presenters provided information for those working in the field who support children, families, and early educators, sharing the risks involved in exposure to long-term stress and trauma and strategies to promote positive and healthy early education environments. Click here for a recording of the webinar. Click here to access the PowerPoint.

Working with young children? Want to know more about social-emotional development or the impact of stress and trauma?

This online course is an interactive, self-paced, e-learning course for those adults who often find themselves in the company of children ages zero to five and their families. Perfect for professionals such as early childhood educators and child care providers, public health workers, nurses and other medical providers, and case managers, and for the caregivers of young children. Co-created by Dr. Alicia Lieberman, author of The Emotional Life of the Toddler and world-renowned expert in the areas of child development and trauma, Attachment Vitamins provides an overview of early social-emotional development with suggestions to support healthy and mutually-satisfying child-caregiver relationships. During the course, participants will learn about early childhood social-emotional development; explore the impact of stress and trauma; reflect on the possible meanings of children’s behaviors; delve into the influence of culture on families’ socialization goals; and become familiar with a number of strategies aimed to promote secure attachment and safe socialization practices.

New Tools For TA and PD Specialists Available!

We are excited to share new, free tools for Technical Assistance and Professional Development Specialists and Faculty! Download, post & share!

Over the past year the Beaufort Hyde Partnership for Children has continued its work with early childhood, public television and art partners to develop more tools to grow opportunities for young children to play and learn outdoors in early childhood and community settings.

Spread the word! More Play Outside NC tools have been developed as part of a multi-year project supported by PNC Grow Up Great.

Download Free Tools! Below are links to free tools developed for early educators working in the classroom and for those supporting the work of early educators through the provision of training, education, technical assistance and quality improvement.

Free Web-Based Training! A free, 5 hour, web-based training about literacy and art outside will soon be available for Technical Assistance and Professional Development Specialists through the Beaufort Hyde Partnership for Children until June 30. 2018. The Powerpoint training modules may be viewed, saved, reused and shared by training participants. The modules are intended to be viewed using the Notes View. They may be accessed here. Contact Carroll Worrell Barnes with questions at carroll@bhckids.org.

Free Video Segments! A series of six Play Outside public television segments for use by early educators as training tools, parent education and/or resources developed are available below. Segments 4, 5 & 6 were developed during this phase of the project and aired on UNCTV this past spring.

Free Activity Cards! Click here to access a series of free activity cards to support early educators and families making connections with young children about learning concepts using the outdoor environment are attached to share, use and post!

Early Childhood Workforce Index

The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment has released the Early Childhood Workforce Index. It represents the first effort to establish a baseline description of early childhood employment conditions and policies in every state and to track progress on a state-by-state basis to improve early childhood jobs. Providing states with periodic appraisals of their efforts, based on measurable status and policy indicators, is aimed at encouraging states to step up their efforts to address these persistent workforce challenges and at supporting related advocacy efforts.

Lift Your Voice

We can all lift our voices to share the need for early educators to earn a worthy wage.

Check Out Career Videos. Sandhills Community College has released a set of College to Career videos, featuring Early Childhood Department students who have pursued degrees, articulated credits into four-year and graduate degrees, entered from home school settings. Click here.